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Objective: To develop the concept of division as repeated subtraction.

Materials Required: 50 marbles/pebbles/coins for each student, bowls.

Procedure:

1. The teacher will divide the class into pairs and write a division problem on the

board, say 15 ÷ 5.
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2. All the pairs will be asked to take out 15 marbles and put into a bowl.

3. Each pair will take 5 marbles each time out of 15 marbles until no marble is left and
put them into the other bowl.

4. The students will write in their notebook the subtraction of 5 from 15 as:

15 – 5 = 10 10 – 5 = 5 5 – 5 = 0

5. The students will also note down the number of times 5 marbles are taken out from
15 marbles.